Tumblr Salad

This one’s more of a petite Tumblr side salad, really. 🙂 I haven’t posted terribly many images to the boZannical Tumblr since my post last month in the Tumblr Salad category, but there are a couple of good ones, nonetheless… Always worth sharing!

At Flora Grubb Gardens this “cup of gold” vine (Solandra maxima) climbs the front of the shade house at the sidewalk. These flowers are stunning, and huge! Easily six inches across, and a foot long.

Somebody left a fleeting message in Sharpie inside an ephemeral flower on the cup-of-gold vine at Flora Grubb Gardens.

Ginkgo biloba’s foliage turning for fall…

This member of the hibiscus family – Lagunaria patersonii – is commonly called “primrose tree” or “cow itch tree.” It makes a great street tree here in SF, and its prolific pink blooms come out in autumn with the rainy season.

A truly stunning succulent garden. This is on 18th St, near Market, and is a small garden in front of a house, but with a big impact.

On 28th St, this stunningly-perfect color palette peeks out from next to a stair case, above Castro St.

The setting sun’s rays catching the tips of the towering inflorescences on these blooming Agave americana at City College.

I love the delicate-looking flowers of the “fortnight lily” – Dietes. Not a super-exciting plant, but this member of the iris family is extremely hardy, drought-tolerant, withstands abuse and neglect as a street planting, holds up to dog pee, and blooms pretty much year ’round!

Air plants have found their way to Walgreen’s as a disposable Halloween kitsch item.